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Show HHT FBAUD CASE TO BE PUSHED ; 5tatfeAttorneyGeneraLSays Present Action Opens Prosecution of All Known j to Have Defrauded in Pay AoMPLAINT drawn up by II, II. Cluff, attorney general, gen-eral, in behalf ot the. state of T'tah against Joseph A. Smith of Sevier county was forwarded lost night to the county attorney of Sevier county, directing him to have Smith arrested. I The complaint" alleges thst Joseph A. Smith In December. 120. committed com-mitted the crime of felony. The complaint alleges that. Smith unlawfully unlaw-fully and with Intent to defraud the stste road commission presented for allowance to the commission a certain cer-tain false and fraudulent claim voucher and payroll, duly certified by him and purporting to be a genuine . hill and payroll for wages, amounting to the sum ofll7.50 for services purported to be rendered" by certain persons as laborers and teamsters In the construction of the state road between Hurrville and Kooaharem In Hevler county during the month of December. It la further alleged thnt Smith knew the same to be fraudulent In that It contained the name and clnlm for money In the euro of $21 of a false snd flctitloua person, who did not eiat. the name of V. M, Fairbanks Fair-banks Jr. In the voucher and payroll that is in the handa of the attorney general the several days upon which Kalr-! Kalr-! banks Js alleged to have worked are shown and the Information that the i state official haa ia to the effect that ino onwss at work by that name. Thla complaint, according to At-; At-; tornry General Cluff. la the beginning of a number of others of similar character thnt have been reported to the commission. ' |